A New Mosquito from Fiji, Aedes (Finlaya) freycinetiae Q. sp. (Diptera: Culicidae)

UNTIL Marks (1947) described Aedes (Finla)'a) fijiensis from Viti Levu, it had been generally accepted that the representative of the widespread kochi group occurring there was A. kochi (Danitz) itself. The easternmost limit of the latter species is now placed at, or at all events near, Nissan Island, Territory of New Guinea (Marks, 1947). The only indication that A. fijiensis may not be the sole member of its subgenus occurring in Fiji is Marks' (1947) brief account of a single distinctive larva-which she queried as perhaps referable to A. samoanus (Grunberg)-collected from Pandanus axils in association with A. fijiensis. There are no records of the latter species from outside of Fiji, but A. samoantlS is found in Tonga as well as Samoa (Edwards, 1926) and Iyengar (1955) has recently listed it from the Wallis Islands. These two mosquitoes are the most easterly representatives of their subgenus thus far described from the South Pacific. Paine (1943) considered leafaxils of the common coastal Pandanus tectorius (Sol.) to be the usual larval habitat of A. fijiensis (= A. kochi in part). He also reported this insect from the smaller Pandanus thurstonii Wright, and, less frequently still, from the large aroid Alocasia indica. Neither Amos (1947) nor Marks (1947) listed any additional larval habitats, Marks (presumably following Paine in Edwards, 1935) mistakenly referring A. indica to the genus Colocasia. Whilst A.jijiensis is primarily associated with